Maddox’s survivors include a son, Charles. His wife, Leola, died in 2017. NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York ...

(The Root) — In 1987 a 15-year-old black girl from upstate New York became the center of a national media circus. Tawana Brawley had gone missing, which, of course, wasn’t the story. It was when she ...

Remember the Tawana Brawley case, in which she lied about being raped by some law enforcement personnel, all white men? Turned out to be a lie, and Sharpton, a racial arsonist, ruined a man's life by ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Based on the Tawana Brawley case that shocked the United States in the late 1980s, Joyce Carol Oates’ latest novel, “The Sacrifice,” is eerily prescient. The story concerns a ...

Jonathan Mahler’s portrait of four crucial years in 1980s New York City shows a volatile and divided city in crisis, with loudmouths from Al Sharpton to Rudy Giuliani to Donald Trump accumulating ...